Survivor Series was pretty bad, the build was worse though. Some of the wrestling wasn't too bad, but the booking was idiotic and giving the final of your World Title tournament seven goddam minutes is pure stupidity. And they ended the night with Sheamus as champion. Displeasure.

Raw is really odd in that WWE has a vast array of talent, all of which are excellent in many areas, and they manage to showcase them all utterly terribly. They may deride WCW a lot, but not since the days of Nitro was such a massively talented collection of wrestling characters misused so horribly.

kerr9000 wrote:You know at one stage Vince was apparently going to keep WCW running as a semi separate show

The whole brand split thing which occurred later on was intended to be WCW/WWF rather than Raw/Smackdown. Vince intended to change Raw into Nitro and make WCW it's own entity, but the show they ran in Tacoma, Washington with Buff Bagwell in the main event had such a negative reaction that it convinced McMahon to pull the plug and kill WCW deader than dead (and they've been spitting on it's grave ever since).

BUMP
Since we're now in 2016 it seems now every one needs to be in a stable Authority, League of nations Wyatt family, New day, Reigns buddies and now We got social outcasts with slater rose axel and Dallas.

Not sure how to feel about Reigns having to defend the title in the Rumble. I suspect the main reason is to "make Roman look strong", but let's be realistic, it'd be super dumb to have him win as it would mean he's heading into Wrestlemania season with no challengers to the belt. I suspect strongly that Triple H will win, thereby setting up his revenge for TLC and also meaning he headlines the biggest Wrestlemania of all time. And although it sticks in my craw, hand on heart, I would prefer it to Cena winning.